paulproteus

From the guy who wrote PyCrust, now called Py:

All I ask from my fellow Pythonians is free meals at the public expense.

They Might Be Giants are playing, according to their website, on Thursday 2/24 at the Towson, MD Borders. It's at 415 York Road at 7 PM, and it costs no money.

If you want to come, email me! I'm totally going.

Borders' website has just a bit of information.

As if anyone reading needed any reminding of this, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 bans circumventing copy control systems. But Magnatune, now selling its music on the iTunes Music Store, tells its users that they may break Apple DRM:

Yes, absolutely, Magnatune (and I) have no problem with users removing DRM on iTunes purchased tracks.

-john

Gee, but that's illegal under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But Magnatune isn't interested in the DRM, and doesn't want its customers to be restricted in that way.

If only there were some law proposed to make this all saner….

Jack Chick Tract restored!

Martin: I do not have a Slashdot login but I feel bad about that, and so as of tonight I will have one. Will it cost me any money?

“The presumption [of the Internet] is that you're fully connected,” Cerf said. Any attempts to block certain application types or types of content, he said, “will destroy the utility of the Net.”

I was in the shuttle going home tonight, and I spotted one of this year's MSE staff. When I pointed out to him/her that I recognized him/her as this, he/she said to me, “MSE staff don't go out and drink.”

“I think I'm glad they do,” I replied.

I should:

• Fix slides to be “real slides” - don't give away all my content
• Mention delicious, tags, trackback
• Use buzzphrase “World Live Web”

Be careful what your idiots do.

“People can die from a broken heart,” he said. “Lovesickness is probably extremely common.”